Upgrading ships??

Demosthenes1234 · March 9, 2003, 04:33

Hey just a simple question. How do I upgrade my obsolete ships and task forces?
-Demos

vmxa1 · March 9, 2003, 04:50

No can do. No upgrades for ships. TF you can disband and reconstitute (after the ships do their delay penalty).
It is usually a good idea to periodically redesign ships so you do not have a bunch of junkers. The junkers can be used to sit on planets to hold down pirates and act as MP's. You could also use them as fodder in battles or scrap them.

Demosthenes1234 · March 9, 2003, 07:56

...we can't upgrade our ships???? ....I don't understand. Why would they take that element out of Moo?? Even more

-Demos

p.s. there probably was alot of discussion on this but I failed to read the thread concerning what was dropped or cut out etc.

vmxa1 · March 9, 2003, 17:16

Sorry I do not know, my guess is that they were running out of time and money. It may have other reasons that are related such as the difficulty of making it balanced.

CharlesBHoff · March 10, 2003, 07:30

There is than limit on how much can be upgrade in realy life.
You donot see old ship of the line being upgrade with modern weapon do you, even the fireing of the 5 inches guns would stake these ship apart.

duodecimal · March 10, 2003, 08:11

Yes, but this is the future! We discovered Engineering Foresight & Scalability in 13021 GC.

Starlord · March 10, 2003, 09:07

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Originally posted by Demosthenes1234
...we can't upgrade our ships???? ....I don't understand. Why would they take that element out of Moo?? Even more

-Demos

p.s. there probably was alot of discussion on this but I failed to read the thread concerning what was dropped or cut out etc.

In Moo2 upgrading was essential because you kept your ships alive over a long time and because of the command points It was (at least in the beginning) quite expensive too build new ships while waiting that the older ones get destoyed in battle.
In Moo3 it is absolutely no problem to afford building new ships while waiting that the older vessels get destroyed.
What I would like to see is some kind of template system that does remove the need to permanently create new ship designs by yourself. The AI should automatically keep your designs up to date.

Starlord

Edit: Accidentally submitted my post before finishing

CharlesBHoff · March 10, 2003, 14:35

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Originally posted by duodecimal
Yes, but this is the future! We discovered Engineering Foresight & Scalability in 13021 GC.

In MOO 2 there was no limit to your ability to upgrade your ships. I once live in a town that vote 10 million dollar to buy
than out of bussien department store for use as the new public library. To upgrade the old builting would have cost 3 or 4 times as much.

Harry Seldon · March 10, 2003, 14:40

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Originally posted by duodecimal
Yes, but this is the future! We discovered Engineering Foresight & Scalability in 13021 GC.

CharlesBHoff · March 10, 2003, 14:50

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Originally posted by Harry Seldon

The old library builting was built in the 1880's I believe and to expand the builting would have meant tearing down the old builting completed and sent the next 2 or 3 years builting than completely new builting. The department builting was built in the late 1960's and met all current builting code in effect, the old builting didnot meet current builting code at all.